Re: Databases compared at zend.com

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
Cc: Michael <mwaples(at)waples(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Databases compared at zend.com
Date: 2001-06-01 18:25:59
Message-ID: 6101.991419959@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com> writes:
> Good article. The only inaccuracy I saw was that he claims Postgres'
> storage of large objects is "in the filesystem" and "inefficient".

He may be thinking about the fact that Postgres used to store each large
object as a separate table, which did indeed get pretty inefficient if
you had large numbers of large objects (not so much Postgres itself, as
that most Unix filesystems don't handle huge directories efficiently).
This is fixed as of 7.1, however.

regards, tom lane

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